Locus Amoenus

Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance
Herausgegeben von Samson, Alexander

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of newperspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of itsdevelopment. Experts in the field illustrate the extent of ourknowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related totheir environment.

A ground-breaking collection of new perspectives on gardenhistory
Essays demonstrate the extent of our knowledge of how thenatural world looked and how humans related to theirenvironment
The book s broad coverage includes botany and herbals, literaryreflections of changing ideas of landscape and nature, and human splace within it
Contributors come from a wide range of experts, includingarchaeologists, scholars and the librarian and archivist to theRoyal Horticultural Society
Reflects the growing emergence of this field, which has beenassisted both by archaeology and ideas from green studies andenvironmental criticism
Richly illustrated throughout

Produktdetails

• Renaissance Studies Special Issues .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781444361513
• ISBN-10: 1444361511
• Artikelnr.: 34762095

Autorenporträt

Alexander Samson lectures on early modern Spain and Latin America at University College London. He is also the co-director of the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges. His research interests include Anglo-Spanish intercultural exchange, the marriage of Philip II and Mary Tudor, and the Golden Age comedia. He is the editor of The Spanish Match: Prince Charles's Journey to Madrid, 1623 (2006) and A Companion to Lope de Vega (with Jonathan Thacker, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors ix Introduction Locus amoenus: gardens and
horticulture in the Renaissance Alexander Samson 1 1 The world of the
Renaissance herbal Brent Elliott 24 2 Clinging to the past: medievalism in
the English 'Renaissance' garden Paula Henderson 42 3 River gods:
personifying nature in sixteenth-century Italy Claudia Lazzaro 70 4
Dissembling his art: 'Gascoigne's Gardnings' Susan C. Staub 95 5 'My
innocent diversion of gardening': Mary Somerset's plants Jennifer Munroe
111 6 Outdoor pursuits: Spanish gardens, the huerto and Lope de Vega's
Novelas a Marcia Leonarda Alexander Samson 124 7 Experiencing the past: the
archaeology of some Renaissance gardens Brian Dix 151 Index 183